It's a bit self-righteous and very smug on his part anyway to think or try to infer he wasnt part of the problem for all those 16 seasons Payton was here. Their was sheet ton of bad luck and sure, maybe the FO and organization had their faults but considering Payton essentially ran most of the off-field issues and personnel issues at least while Benson was still alive, his arse is at least somewhat responsible for those injuries piling up back in the day. So, yeah Payton is being very petty and mean here and very vindictative butt crevasse too. Because he's trying to pretend most of those same injuries that always happened here under his tenure were all mostly someone else's fault and he takes no responsibility.